26Mon
Coordinator: Prof. Anwesh Mazumdar
30Fri
Coordinator: Prof. Anwesh Mazumdar
The Bibha Chowdhury Memorial Lecture for this year will be delivered by Prof. Kasturi Saha (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay) at 4:00 PM today in the V G Kulkarni Auditorium, HBCSE. This is a Special Lecture in the ongoing Vigyan Vidushi (Physics) programme.
All are welcome to attend the lecture. It will also be livecast on YouTube on the Vigyan Vidushi Physics channel: https://tinyurl.com/bcmlecture
The details of the lecture and the speaker are as follows.
Diamonds are for everyone!
Tremendous research activity worldwide has focused on attempting to harness the exotic properties of quantum physics for new applications in metrology, computation, and communications - a push to develop "engineered quantum systems". Color centers in diamond such as, nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV centers) could provide a platform for precision magnetometry allowing for nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of individual complex molecules. In this talk, I will give an overview of our research towards development of an imaging tool for mapping neuronal signals from mammalian brain cells and non-destructive semiconductor chip imaging.
Kasturi Saha is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay and the Project Director for the Quantum Sensing and Metrology Hub established under the National Quantum Mission. She obtained her Ph.D. from School of Applied and Engineering Physics in Cornell University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and is recipient of IIT Bombay Young Faculty Award, Venus International Young Faculty Award, Young Applied Physicists' Award and IITB C1973 Research Excellence Award 2024. Her research interests include quantum sensing, nano-photonics, precision metrology, and quantum information with solid state color defects.